Minneapolis Kindergarten Student Hospitalized After Classmate Gave Her ‘Poisoned Candy’

MINNEAPOLIS — A little girl is in the hospital after she says a kindergarten classmate gave her something suspicious.

Rachel Hodges says her daughter, Da’Kyah, was shaking, having trouble walking and acting strangely Monday.

Officials at Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary School in Minneapolis called Hodges to tell him that Da’Kyah had vomited and had what looked like seizures.

“She didn’t know who I was,” Hodges said. “She didn’t know my mother. She has a twin, she didn’t know him.”

Hodges says that after emergency room doctors told him it wasn’t a seizure, the episodes of strange behavior continued from time to time.

She says they include hallucinations and mood changes.

“I’ve never seen a kid act that way,” Hodges said. “And it’s just sad, because she’s afraid of me and I’m her mother.”

Da’Kyah says a girl in her class gave her what she said was candy.

“But she played a joke on me,” Da’Kyah said. “After she ate them, she said, ‘Ha, just kidding. They’re poisonous candy.’ My body hurt and yes, it was scary.”

Da’Kyah described what she ate as colorful pills.

“The police looked her in the eye,” Hodges said. “They saw that she was dilated. Her eyes were very crossy and very big, and they knew she must have ingested something she shouldn’t have.”

A Minneapolis police spokesperson said: “As per normal procedure for handling a report involving young children, this matter has been referred to Child Protective Services (CPS). MPD will continue to work with CPS as this case progresses. »

Hodges says they’re waiting for blood tests to hopefully identify what scared Da’Kyah and her family so much.

WCCO called and emailed Minneapolis Public Schools several times this week but did not receive a response.